The European Legacy, Volume 17, Issue 4, Page 549-550, July 2012.

This is a superb anthology that questions the value and even the existence of honor in the contemporary world. Although readers have had the benefit of excellent works on this concept from mainly a...

The European Legacy, Volume 17, Issue 3, Page 416, June 2012.

The assessment of student learning is widely regarded with suspicion. Philosophers in particular have been reluctant to take this practice seriously. The essay reviews an ongoing effort to assess the development of philosophical dispositions among undergraduate students at a religiously affiliated liberal arts college. The procedure used in this effort as well as the results obtained so far strongly suggest that the deep learning valued most highly by philosophy teachers can be measured without harm to the teaching enterprise. The essay (...) argues that in light of a current cultural climate that fails to recognize the value of our enterprise, philosophers would be well advised to clearly define our particular learning goals, develop our own instruments, and to exercise more initiative in assessing our students learning. (shrink)

The main idea of Being-Moved is that the epistemological concept of human nature, as professed by Michel Foucault, need not be an eighteenth-century invention conceived as a natural science biopowe...

Peter Longerich’s Hitler: A Biography is a lengthy book. It consists of 965 pages of text (44 chapters within seven categories), 246 pages of notes, and 70 pages of listed sources: archival, period...